What teaches and delights? Can reading both teach and delight? There is a special moment when a reader connects with a book. The words pour into not just your heart, but your brain. They stick with you not just a day but for years. For me reading is a true delight. If I could just sit and read forever I would be perfectly happy! One of the things I enjoy most about reading is the fact that it does teach us. I learn more about life, living vicariously through heroes, damsels, assassins, rulers, and even hobbits, then I sometimes do going to class. We get to experience, even if its through words, the world and how different people handle different events that can come upon them. Why is this?
There is a direct link to what delights us to what teaches us. If we love something we are more likely to watch, study, and learn everything about the thing that interests us. If you love a certain TV show, do you tend to know random facts about how it was made, or how the whole show came to be? I know I do! Another example is my love of art. I love art! Studying art history fascinates me and I have watched videos and read books about paintings that truly fascinate me. Just like reading, art can allow you to see the world as another person perceives it. No two people view the world the same way. By reading and viewing art pieces, we get to see, if just for a moment in time, how one persons see the world. This teaches us hands on.
There is another side to this. What about guilty pleasures? These are not necessarily educational things like art or reading. They could be a TV show, cooking, even sleeping. Do these teach and delight? They sure do delight. Thats why they are guilty pleasures! What about teaching? Does all teachings have to be about liberal arts, such as science, math, and english? What makes guilty pleasures, guilty pleasures? These things usually make us happy. I think discovering and engaging in our guilty pleasures teaches us something. Sure its not math, but it teaches you about you. You get to see what makes you happy and you get to analyze why it makes you happy.
So what teaches and delights? For me, the more we learn about who we are and this amazing world we live in, is what teaches the most and what makes us the most happy. I think sometimes, as humans, we focus so much on what doesn't matter. We are more connected to wi-fi and what celebrities are eating for dinner, then we are to who we are. Im not saying that social media is bad (trust me, its one of my guilty pleasures), but maybe we need to take a step back and truly look at what we can learn about the world we live in and our selves, instead of the everyone else around us. The more you do things that enlighten and teach you, the happier you will be.
There is a direct link to what delights us to what teaches us. If we love something we are more likely to watch, study, and learn everything about the thing that interests us. If you love a certain TV show, do you tend to know random facts about how it was made, or how the whole show came to be? I know I do! Another example is my love of art. I love art! Studying art history fascinates me and I have watched videos and read books about paintings that truly fascinate me. Just like reading, art can allow you to see the world as another person perceives it. No two people view the world the same way. By reading and viewing art pieces, we get to see, if just for a moment in time, how one persons see the world. This teaches us hands on.
There is another side to this. What about guilty pleasures? These are not necessarily educational things like art or reading. They could be a TV show, cooking, even sleeping. Do these teach and delight? They sure do delight. Thats why they are guilty pleasures! What about teaching? Does all teachings have to be about liberal arts, such as science, math, and english? What makes guilty pleasures, guilty pleasures? These things usually make us happy. I think discovering and engaging in our guilty pleasures teaches us something. Sure its not math, but it teaches you about you. You get to see what makes you happy and you get to analyze why it makes you happy.
So what teaches and delights? For me, the more we learn about who we are and this amazing world we live in, is what teaches the most and what makes us the most happy. I think sometimes, as humans, we focus so much on what doesn't matter. We are more connected to wi-fi and what celebrities are eating for dinner, then we are to who we are. Im not saying that social media is bad (trust me, its one of my guilty pleasures), but maybe we need to take a step back and truly look at what we can learn about the world we live in and our selves, instead of the everyone else around us. The more you do things that enlighten and teach you, the happier you will be.
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